Re:The real cost of starting a startup?
by bookhuddle on Friday August 01, 2008 @04:29PM
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Libraries generally close around 8pm. Software startup founders are probably just getting started at that time. :)
Then hit the starbucks.
There is a 24hrs one open close to my place (laurel heights, sf), and now there is even free wifi, and they remodeled it.
Get a double shot machiatto, (1.99), and just hack. There is food, water, bathrooms right there.
After the remodeling, for some reason, I find myself being incredibly productive there.
Unless you go to a campus library. Then you also get access to lots of fun research journals
Seconded.
If there's one thing I miss about college it's the 24-hour facilities. Even though there was always "home" it felt more entrepreneurial to work in a dedicated workspace, if a public one.
Re:The real cost of starting a startup?
by mechanical_fish on Friday August 01, 2008 @05:14PM
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It's quiet. Too quiet. You can't hold whiteboard meetings and wave your arms a lot in a library, or they ask you to leave.
The conference rooms do exist, sometimes, but it's probably hard to consistently get one several times a week. When you find you really need a conference, the rooms may all be full.
Sounds like 2DBoy:
http://www.2dboy.com/about.php
It wouldn't work forever, but it would be fine for the first few months.